My Little Half Life

Upon arriving in the kitchen, Twilight had quickly observed the small room that she saw every morning. It was about the same size as her bedroom, with a stove on the right side of it. On the left, there was a small refrigerator, with multiple cabinets containing food next to it. In the middle of the room, there was small table with two chairs, one for Twilight, and one for Spike. Finally, on the back wall, there was a closed, sliding, metal door that could be opened with a nearby retina scanner. Black Mesa was a top-notch research facility with the highest technology known to Equestria. It was here that Twilight took the place of one of the top scientists at the Black Mesa Research Facility, specializing in theoretical physics. Spike, like back in Ponyville, was still her assistant.

Twilight trotted over to the cupboard and opened it using her magic, then looked to see what was for breakfast. There wasn’t much, but there was enough to keep them going for about one more week. After seeing what the cupboard offered, Twilight decided to go with just a simple daisy sandwich. As she was getting out the lettuce and daisies, Spike came out of the bedroom.

“So Twilight, what’s for breakfast?” Spike inquired. He took his usual place at the table.

“How about some nice rubies?” Twilight offered. Because Spike was a dragon, his teeth were as sharp as nails. While most ponies would think gems taste like hard metal, or rock, to dragons they are like tasty fruit.

“Mmm… Sounds good!” Spike licked his lips in anticipation of his breakfast. Upon hearing his agreement, Twilight opened the cupboard again and quickly browsed through what was there. On the middle shelf, there laid several assortments of gems, sapphires, emeralds, and rubies! Twilight grabbed about 3 rubies and levitated them over to Spike, who, in turn, grabbed them and proceeded to dig in.

After giving Spike his breakfast, Twilight continued her quest to complete her daisy sandwich. She brought two slices of bread to her place at the counter and then adorned them with her lettuce. In addition to the lettuce, she put the main ingredient of the sandwich, the daisies, on top of them. Confirming that her simple, yet filling, sandwich was complete, Twilight levitated it over to her place at the table and took her seat.

Twilight got comfortable in her seat, sitting in the normal pony style. For some reason, she got a quick flashback of Ponyville. In it, she saw the sea-foam green unicorn, aptly named Lyra Heartstrings, sitting on a park bench. Twilight gave a quick laugh to herself as she saw her sitting that weird way she always had, where her legs hung off the side of the bench. Pushing the old memory out of her mind, Twilight instead decided to focus on her current eating situation.

After several minutes of enjoying their breakfast, Twilight and Spike were ready to go. Twilight approached the retina scanner and put her eyes to it. The scanner took a second to recognize her before allowing the door to open. Twilight then sidestepped away from the scanner so she could exit the room.

“Ready to go, Spike?” Twilight asked Spike.

“Aw, c’mon Twilight! We still have five minutes!” Twilight quickly glanced at the clock that was on the wall in the kitchen. It read 6:55 AM.

“Well, you know what they say, Spike: Better to be early than late! Now, c’mon!” Sighing in defeat, Spike decided that it was futile to argue anymore.

Twilight exited the small formation of rooms that she and Spike had come to call home. On the opposite side of the wall there was another retina scanner, used for opening and closing the metal door from the outside. Twilight once again let it scan her before the door closed. Happy that everything was, so far, going according to plan, Twilight smiled a bit before turning to face Spike. For some reason though, Twilight suddenly got this, sort of, knot in her stomach. Spike noticed Twilight’s sudden change.

“Twilight, is there something wrong?” Spike asked cautiously. Twilight swallowed a bit of saliva.

“Huh, what?” Twilight stuttered. “Oh, it’s nothing Spike, just, got this, feeling. Like something bad was going to happen today. It- It’s gone.” Spike was still a bit cautious.

“Alright… Just, if you feel anything like that again, tell me.” Spike told her.

“Sure.” Twilight was trying to reassure Spike that nothing was wrong, when in reality, she wasn’t sure herself.

What was that? I’ve never felt something like that before.

Twilight decided that it was more important to focus on getting to the main facility of Black Mesa, where they would be conducting a major experiment today. She looked past Spike, down the hall, where about 20 feet away, laid a corner turning right. Twilight and Spike started to walk down the hallway, passing several doors with retina scanners next to them. Black Mesa gave every worker a living space almost identical in every way to Twilight and Spike’s place. The only thing that is different is what the workers buy for their place. Black Mesa also had this complicated transit system for anywhere you want to go. They have their own little restaurants, Laundromats, and the different facilities.

After a few moments of walking in silence, Twilight and Spike came to the corner. They rounded it, and came across another corridor. They started down this one, passing other doors where the different workers resided.

After only a minute of walking, the hall they were currently in opened up into a larger room, where on the other side, they saw a small train, door open. Twilight and Spike looked at each other, nodded, and then got on board the train. As soon as they were both on it, the train’s door automatically shut itself, effectively locking them both in. Then, it started down the track.